# data[].attributes.body
Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy born in Chicago, Illinois who attended a segregated school when he was younger and enjoyed playing pranks. It is said that his mother had warned him to take care of himself due to his race, worried to let him roam because had never dealt with the large amount of segregation and racism to such extent while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi.

# data[].attributes.body
Emmett Till had gone to the Bryant Store with his cousins and friends to buy things like candies and gum. Upon leaving the store, he allegedly whistled, touched the hand or waist of and flirted with Carolyn Bryant.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
Both depicted smiling while being interviewed; they claimed it was merely for publicity ->Left: J.W. Milam -- Right: Rob Bryant

# data[].attributes.body
Roy Bryant, the husband of Carolyn Bryant, had been furious once he had found out the allegations of Emmett Till. At 2:30 am, Roy Bryant and his half brother J.W. Milam entered his uncle, Moses Wright's home, where Emmett Till was staying. They kidnapped him, brutally and inhumanely murdered him, and disposed of his body in the Tallahatchie River.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
Mobley addressing the crowd during the open casket ceremony of Emmett Till

# data[].attributes.body
Mamie Till Mobley, Emmett's mother, held an open casket funeral for her only child; while identifying the body, she had told the funeral director, "Let the people see what I've seen." She wanted people like the national press, Civil Rights and political leaders to attend. More than 100,000 people had come to visit his casket and view his body.

# data[].attributes.body
Medgar Evers, an American Civil Rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary/officer indulged himself into the case of Emmett Till's murder. He formed a secret campaign in search of black witnesses who would come forward for Till's case. Alongside Evers was T. R. M. Howard, who hired guards to protect witnesses, Mamie Till, and himself as he had been receiving death threats prior. It is said that Emmett Till's devastating story was a great lead and uprise towards the Civil Rights Movement.

# data[].attributes.body
An African American weekly magazine, named Jet, posted pictures of Emmett Till's mutilated body. These pictures are recognized as the spark of the civil rights movement, more specifically Rosa Parks took a stand (by sitting) on the bus 95 days after Emmett's death.

# data[].attributes.body
Trial for the murder of Emmett Till did not open until September. where the two murderers were acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury. After deliberating for only 67 minutes, the jury declared the verdict, not guilty. Reporters said they overheard laughing inside of the jury room. One juror later said "[they] wouldn't have taken so long if [they] hadn't stopped to drink pop". Both of the murderers ended up living rather unremarkable lives, and each died of cancer, flops from birth to death.

# data[].attributes.body
In 2017, Tim Tyson, author of the book The Blood of Emmett Till, revealed that Carolyn Bryant, the woman who had originally accused Emmett, recanted her testimony. She admitted that Till had never touched, threatened nor harassed her. “Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him,” she said. Flop.